I've Dated Worse

Disclaimer: So I guess we gotta go with this whole thing again, CBS owns Criminal Minds. Not me. :(

Summary: Hotch remembers Emily telling him in '52 Pick Up' that she's dated worse than Viper. Wanting to pursue a romantic relationship with Emily, so he decides to investigate her past dating record.

A/N: Makes mention of men on other tv shows outside of CM's world. May seem a little OOC, but that's what fanfic for.

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Mae West said, "Don't cry for a man who's left you, the next one may fall for you're smile."

"You're ok with this, right?" Hotch asked walking into the woman's locker room.

"Yeah, I'll be fine." Emily said while putting on her earring "Sadly I've actually dated people worse than Viper."

"Wow." Hotch said.

'Worse than Viper?' Hotch thought 'How could anyone date anything worse than Viper?'

Hotch looked down into the bullpen at Emily on the phone laughing.

'She really is beautiful' Hotch thought 'But if I'm going to take that leap, I need to know why the others failed. So I don't go down that path.'

Hotch looked back over at her, and could only ever remember one man that he knew had a romantic past with Emily, since she'd been at the BAU.

John Cooley.

'Now how do I find the others?' Hotch thought 'Ask Garcia to look into it for him? JJ too? Ask the guys she's ended relationships with? Or just ask her?'

Hotch thought 'I'll ask her for a list of her exes. Than if she says no, ask JJ and Garcia.'

Hotch looked down into the bullpen and whispers "If she doesn't kill me first."

The brunette's eyes traveled up to his office, and she caught him staring at her. A small smile on his lips had her immediately smiling back.

Hotch gave her a small nod to come up and talk to him, so she got up to head to his office.

Emily knocked on his door and heard the ever polite "Come in."

Emily saw Hotch look nervous and a bit afraid.

"What's up?" Emily asked taking a seat in front of him.

"I know this is a rather inappropriate time to have this conversation" Hotch began "But I'd like to go out with you."

"Excuse me?" she asked, her eyebrow raised in surprise.

Hotch took a deep breath "I want to go out with you, Emily."

"Oh" Emily's cheeks go crimson and she starts breathing deeply feeling light headed "Ok."

"Are you ok?" Hotch asked "You look like you're going to pass out."

Emily shook her head "No, I'm fine. Just caught me off guard. Sure, I'm ok with that. Anything else?"

"Well there is one other thing, I'd like to ask" Hotch said taking a deep breath "Can you give me a list of all your past boyfriends that you can remember?"

Emily's eyes widen at that, "Uh... Why?"

Hotch looked down at his desk and said "Because I want to know where they failed, so I don't go down... Ah hell I want that and to check out what I'm up against."

Emily bit her lip and contemplated this, 'I do want to date Hotch, but give him a list of her exes? All of them?'

Emily inhaled and said "Ok, on one condition."

Hotch felt relief and said "Ok? What's the condition?"

"You can't judge me, by whatever most of them said" Emily said seriously "Some of the break ups where pretty messy."

"Ok" Hotch nodded, "I can live with that."

Emily took a pen and piece of paper off his desk, "Some of these are really long ago exes so I don't know if they still have the same number."

"I'll get Garcia to look into it" Hotch said.

Emily's head shot up "No, not her. Ok. Use Kevin and threaten him into secrecy. Not Garcia, got it?"

Hotch nodded and watched her write down names.

Handing the list over, Emily asked "What are you going to do? With the list?"

Hotch looked over at her and said "Call them. Don't worry I won't actually see them in person."

"Just be careful, you don't know what you're opening up with this." Emily said walking out of the office.

Hotch looked down at the list, sixteen men.

Sixteen different failed romances, and sixteen different men who all got a chance with her but failed.

Hotch called Kevin up to his office and had him track down the men.

Looking at the list he saw two cops, a glee coach, a Federal Agent, two B-list actors, a high level executive, a firefighter, a plumber, a magician, a Deputy White House Chief of Staff, a photographer, a doctor, a junior copy executive, a paper salesman, and a coffee vending machine owner.

Hotch was surprised that a few of these men were criminals.

'What the hell was Emily thinking?' Hotch thought looking at the crimes.

Hotch picked up the phone and down at the list and the photos of the men.

'Who to call first?' Hotch thought.

Hotch picked up the phone and dialed the first man, he thought of.

To Be Continued...